congolese external football player
Chancel Mangulu Mbemba ( bear 8 August 1994 ) is a congolese professional football player who plays as a defender for Primeira Liga club Porto and the DR Congo national team. In his professional career, Mbemba has represented Anderlecht in Belgium, Newcastle United in England, and Porto in Portugal. A entire international for the DR Congo national team since 2012, he earned over 50 caps and represented the country at four Africa Cup of Nations tournaments, coming one-third in 2015 .

early life [edit ]

Mbemba grew up in Kinshasa in a syndicate of nine children. His mother, Antoinette, is a former basketball musician who represented DR Congo. [ 4 ] [ 5 ]

A 2013 reputation by CNN found that documents support four different dates of give birth for Mbemba from 1988 to 1994, with the actor saying himself that he was born in 1990 ; an anonymous extremity of the Congolese Association Football Federation said that his date of birth was changed to 1991 then that he would be eligible for the 2012 Olympics where players must be under 23. [ 6 ] Upon signing for Newcastle, he said that he was born in 1994 and that there was forensic proof. [ 7 ]

Club career [edit ]

Anderlecht [edit ]

After playing youth football for several clubs including E.S. La Grace and FC MK Etanchéité in Kinshasa, Mbemba joined belgian club Anderlecht in 2012. [ 4 ] Mbemba chiefly played with Anderlecht reserve and young person teams. At this compass point Mbemba requested to have a bone scan to dispel rumours that he was older than he actually was. [ 8 ] Mbemba finally made his elder debut on 28 July 2013 in their opening match of the 2013–14 belgian Pro League season, a 2–3 kill to Lokeren. [ 9 ] He made a far 28 appearances during the 2014–15 season as they finished in third descry in the league. They besides finished runner-up in the 2014–15 belgian Cup, losing 1–2 to Club Brugge in the final. [ 10 ]

newcastle United [edit ]

On 26 July 2015, Premier League side Newcastle United announced the sign of Mbemba. [ 11 ] Four days late, he signed a five-year contract with the clubhouse. [ 12 ] He made his debut on 9 August on the first day of the Premier League season, starting in a 2–2 home pull back with Southampton. [ 13 ] He scored his only goal for the clubhouse on 7 May 2017 against Barnsley in a 3–0 home gain, on the lapp day that Newcastle clinched the EFL Championship championship a year after delegating. [ 14 ]

porto [edit ]

On 23 July 2018, Primeira Liga english Porto signed Mbemba for a reported £7.14 million fee. [ 15 ] He made his debut on 31 October in a 4–2 home acquire over Varzim S.C. in the group stage of the Taça district attorney Liga, with director Sérgio Conceição sending out a completely unlike team to the previous league game. [ 16 ] Four days belated he made his Primeira Liga bow as an 80th-minute utility for striker Yacine Brahimi in a 2–0 victory at C.S. Marítimo ; [ 17 ] he played only two more league games that season, one of which was a start in a 3–1 gain over C.D. Nacional at the Estádio do Dragão on 7 January 2019. [ 18 ] He besides played two matches for the reserve team in LigaPro. [ 19 ] [ 20 ] Mbemba scored his beginning goal for the Dragons on 24 November 2019, opening a 4–0 home win over Vitória F.C. that qualified his team to the last 16 of the Taça de Portugal. [ 21 ] The following 7 March, he was on the scoreboard for the first base time in the league, in a 1–1 withdraw with Rio Ave F.C. at the same venue ; [ 22 ] his team ended the temper as champions. [ 23 ] On 1 August 2020, Mbemba scored both goals of a 2–1 winnings over Benfica in the Taça de Portugal Final. [ 24 ]

International career [edit ]

Mbemba made his debut for the DR Congo on 17 June 2012, in a 3–0 home winnings over the Seychelles at the Stade des Martyrs in Kinshasa, in 2013 Africa Cup of Nations qualification. [ 25 ] He was an idle member of Claude Le Roy ‘s team for the finals. [ 26 ] He was region of the squad that came one-third at the 2015 Africa Cup of Nations in Equatorial Guinea, and scored a penalty in the gunfight gain over the hosts for the tan decoration. [ 27 ]

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On 13 October 2015, Mbemba scored his foremost external goal, a late long-distance winner in a 2–1 friendly against Gabon in Visé, Belgium. [ 28 ] He besides went to the Africa Cup of Nations in 2017 and 2019 ; in the latter in Egypt he scored a late header in a 2–2 draw with Madagascar in the last 16, though his team lost in a gunfight. [ 29 ]

career statistics [edit ]

club [edit ]

As of match played 24 September 2021[30][31]
Club Season League National Cup[a] League Cup[b] Continental Other Total
Division Apps Goals Apps Goals Apps Goals Apps Goals Apps Goals Apps Goals
Anderlecht 2013–14 Belgian Pro League 35 5 0 0 — 5[c] 1 0 0 40 6
2014–15 Belgian Pro League 28 1 2 0 — 6[c] 2 1[d] 0 37 3
Total 63 6 2 0 0 0 11 3 1 0 77 9
Newcastle United 2015–16 Premier League 33 0 1 0 1 0 — — 35 0
2016–17 Championship 12 1 0 0 1 0 — — 13 1
2017–18 Premier League 9 0 1 0 1 0 — — 11 0
Total 54 1 2 0 3 0 0 0 0 0 59 1
Porto 2018–19 Primeira Liga 3 0 2 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 6 0
2019–20 Primeira Liga 26 2 6 4 5 0 5[e] 0 — 42 6
2020–21 Primeira Liga 27 1 4 0 1 0 10[c] 0 1[f] 0 43 1
2021–22 Primeira Liga 8 0 0 0 0 0 3[c] 0 — 12 0
Total 64 3 12 4 7 0 18 0 1 0 102 7
Career total 181 10 16 4 10 0 29 3 2 0 238 17

International [edit ]

As of match played 7 October 2021.[32]
National team Year Apps Goals
DR Congo 2012 2 0
2013 2 0
2014 4 0
2015 14 1
2016 7 0
2017 11 2
2018 4 0
2019 10 1
2020 2 0
2021 5 0
Total 61 4

International goals [edit ]

Scores and results list DR Congo’s goal tally first, score column indicates score after each Mbemba goal.[32]

Honours [edit ]

Mbemba ( number 18 ) on his Newcastle debut in August 2015 Anderlecht
Newcastle United
Porto
DR Congo [ 36 ]

References [edit ]